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Managing Poor Performance — Reading Time: 5 minutes In part 1 of this two-part post I covered the potential impacts of poor performance, the causes and your responsibilities as a manager. In part 2, I’ll be guiding you through a seven-step process to help you deal with a poor performer. Tackling Poor Performance Many businesses do have policies and [...]

Stop the Rot – Managing Poor Performance ~ Part 2

January 2, 2013 in Business Skills / Leadership / Management / People / Personal Development / Teams tagged Feedback / Performance / Performance Management / SMART Goals by markconwayuk

Failure — Reading Time: 6 minutes In ‘Fail to Learn, Learn to Fail’ I’d like to cover some common failures of leaders and managers. We all make mistakes, and that’s actually a good thing, as long as you learn from them…and learn quickly. I’m going to draw from my experiences and those of people I’ve met along [...]

Fail to Learn Learn to Fail

September 20, 2012 in Leadership / Management / People tagged Communication / Culture / Fail / Failure / Performance by markconwayuk

Listening for the unsaid! — Reading Time: 4 minutes To paraphrase Wikipedia – An “Elephant in the room” has become a management saying meaning an obvious truth that is being ignored or goes unaddressed. It applies to an obvious problem or risk no one wants to discuss and based on the idea that an elephant in a room would [...]

An Elephant in the Room Part 1 – Management Breakthroughs

September 18, 2011 in Leadership / Management / People / Teams tagged Discrimination / Elephant in the room / Feedback / Leader / Leadership / Performance / Relationship / Sabotage / Success / Team by markconwayuk